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fne8w2ah to TechnologyEnglish · 11 months ago

Huge internet emulation website ROMhacking changes to news only and releases entire 11GB of files onto Internet Archive for preservation

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Huge internet emulation website ROMhacking changes to news only and releases entire 11GB of files onto Internet Archive for preservation

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fne8w2ah to TechnologyEnglish · 11 months ago
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  • aeronmelon
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    You’re absolutely correct, but you and I both know that normal people are going to only manage to create a dithered JPG that’s almost half a MB in size.

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      I laughed because last week, I had to teach the marketing team why you shouldn’t upload your iPhone photos to the website. Each page has a nice 4meg high res photo.

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        Bet they all had location metadata, too.

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          Oh my, I did a scan and yes… We have location meta data on our images.

          Oh boy.

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            I read this in Scott Bakula’s voice.

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        And it’s probably in hvec format too, lol

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          *heic

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      dithered JPG

      How? Why? By first saving it as a fixed-palette GIF?

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